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I wanted to buy a dehumidifier for my bed room as it gets humid when it rains outside, feeling damp cold. This seems to be the smallest and thinning one on the market. After running it for all day, the tank became a half full of clear water. So, it is working fine. It has an automatic internal switch between running fan and dehumidifier probably depending on moist in the air. When a fan turned to a dehumidifier, it makes noise loud enough to wake me up. So, I cannot run this while sleeping unfortunately. Also, the device heats up quickly and air becomes warm. So, it works better in the winter. It consumes 190 watt while dehumidifying, but I am certain it is less when only a fan is working.
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We placed this in a 320' circular dome in our yard. It has tile flooring installed directly on concrete. After the tremendous rains this season, our whole yard became saturated and we started noticing condensation on the flooring and walls in that room. We started running this unit in early January, 24/7 (well, nearly), and it's still running today. We do turn it off for a few hours while we are out there, due to the noise. It's not bad, but I find it's too loud for prolonged exposure. I'm hoping eventually we'll be able to turn it off for longer periods, but for now, it's working wonders in there. Several times the auto-stop has kicked on because it was full and needed to be emptied so I'm glad that feature works as advertised. It's very easy to dump the water and reinsert the collection bucket. It's amazing how much moisture this has collected ... guessing up to 5 gallons/mo.Our electricity usage and bill has gone up, but it's hard to tell just what it is costing to run because we have solar power and much of this time has also coincided with rainy days which means less sun for our solar system and more money out of pocket, even without this extra usage from the dehumidifier. I just look it as an investment toward avoiding the hassle and repair costs we'd have if not for using the dehumidifier.
UPDATE Jun 2011: After a couple more billing cycles, and lots of sunshine for our solar system, I can see that our usage is pretty much normal compared to our previous history shown on the bill (and we are still running this 24/7), so whatever power this baby is drawing is costing us a reasonably low amount of money to use it.
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We purchased one of these for our older daughter's room and it worked well, so well that we bought a second one for our other daughter's room. But within weeks the first one began to rattle. Over a year's use the rattle became noisier and noisier. One year later, it stopped working totally and we have since replaced it with a Soleus Air CFM-40 40-Pint Dehumidifier--Amazon sells it for about the same price and it is INCREDIBLY quiet--so much so that I have just bought a second one to use in my own bedroom at night.The second unit is still working, but it too is becoming noisier and we have noticed that the green power light is fading. I fully expect to have to replace this one as well.
It's a pity because these units DO work well and they are wonderfully compact--why we bought them in the first place.
But they clearly can't take long term heavy duty use.
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On a recent deployment I had this running in a 10x10' room 24/7 for 3 months solid. The environment is on average 80% humid (and 120 degrees :-P) but my room stayed around 20% to 30% (which is not significant). I saw a review that complained of having to empty it constantly. THATS A GOOD THING! This unit is a workhorse. I approve this message.Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for NewAir AD-250 25 Pint Room Dehumidifier
I have a full bathroom with no exhaust fan...I hooked one of these up to a GE in-wall timer....it works great...it would seem to me, that running a dehumidifier on a timer, instead of humidistat, is the way to go...My favorite thing about this unit is, it's 180 Watts!!! Find another compressor driven dehumidifier with that low of operating wattage...just try! I'm thinking of buying a second AD250, and replacing the brand new 50 pint Winex(480 WATTS) in my basement...the Winex has all these features, but I have it running on a 3 hour interval timer...otherwise it just runs all the time,"off and on","off and on"..again and again...also,Winex support is not very good, in my opinion...but I digress...the AD250 was just what I wanted.Wish I would have found this first...I also must mention how quite it is!!
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